Ahead of penguin awareness day on January 20, the National Zoo welcomed four baby penguins.
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00:04 [Birds chirping]
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00:14 Newest additions to the zoo.
00:15 Yeah, we're super excited to announce the arrival of four penguin chicks.
00:19 They were born here at the end of October of 2023.
00:22 So we've kept a little secret for a little while, just as they've been getting their feet and finding their flippers in the water.
00:27 For five weeks they were raised with their parents, so their parents did a really good job.
00:31 And from five weeks we actually got the privilege of helping to raise them.
00:35 So we got to teach them to swim, teach them to eat from us, everything like that.
00:39 And as they lost their very cute fluffy down feathers, they then moved into the big pond with the adults.
00:44 These chicks have come at a really great time for us to be able to highlight the, I guess, the struggles that penguins are facing out in the wild.
00:51 Climate change, overfishing are the two main threats.
00:54 But then we're also looking at things like plastic bags and rubbish going into our waterways.
00:59 So it's a really good chance for us to highlight that and really bring attention to what we need to be doing.
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